Instant Read Meat Thermometer with Digital Screen and Quick Sensor Probe

An instant-read meat thermometer with a fold-out probe and a backlit screen, giving you the temperature at the center of the meat in two to three seconds. The steak comes off the grill when it is actually done, the chicken comes out cooked through, and nobody has to cut into dinner to find out.

No slicing open the thickest piece to check. No guessing from the color of the juices. No holding the grill lid open while a slow dial creeps upward. Swing the probe out, push it in and read the number.

A reading before the heat gets away

You already know a thermometer beats guessing. The problem is the wait, standing over an open grill or a pan of hot oil with your hand near the heat while an old dial slowly makes up its mind. This one settles on a reading in two to three seconds, so the lid goes straight back down and the oven door closes before the heat escapes.

The probe is 4.3 inches long, which keeps your fingers back from the coals and the spitting fat. Its tip steps down to a thinner point at the very end, so it slides into a steak, a burger or a chicken breast and leaves only a small hole behind.

The doneness chart is printed right on it

Most people cook to a number they half remember, and checking it means picking up a phone with greasy hands. Here the guide sits beside the screen: beef, pork, lamb, fish, ground meat, chicken and turkey, with temperatures from medium rare at 130°F up to 165°F for poultry. Take the reading, glance across and you know where you are.

The screen lights up at the press of a button, which matters most at the grill after dark. Another button holds the reading, so you can pull the probe out and check the number away from the heat. A third switches between Fahrenheit and Celsius, and runs the calibration whenever you want to check it. Leave it alone and it switches itself off after 10 minutes.

Folds away and keeps itself handy

The probe swings through 180 degrees and folds back along the body when you are done, so there is no loose spike rolling around the utensil drawer. A magnet in the back holds it on the fridge door, and a round hole at the end hangs it from a hook on the rail beside the stove.

Its range runs from -58°F to 572°F, which covers far more than the Sunday roast: frying oil, bread and bakes, sugar for candy, even a warm drink. It comes in red or black, both with the same black face and white print. Keep it where you can reach it and the guessing simply stops.

Specifications

Type: Instant-read digital meat thermometer with a folding probe

Colors: Red, Black

Material: ABS plastic

Reading time: 2 to 3 seconds

Temperature range: -58°F to 572°F (-50°C to 300°C)

Accuracy: Up to ±0.9°F (±0.5°C)

Display: Backlit LCD

Units: °F and °C, switchable

Buttons: °C/°F and calibrate; hold, max and min; backlight

Calibration: Pre-calibrated, with a calibrate function

Food chart: Printed on the face, for beef, pork, lamb, fish, ground meat, chicken and turkey

Probe: Folding, rotates 180°, step-down tip

Probe length: 4.3 in (11 cm)

Body length: 6.4 in (16.3 cm)

Overall length, probe open: 10.7 in (27 cm)

Auto off: After 10 minutes without use

Storage: Magnet in the back, hanging hole at the end

Battery: 1x CR2450 coin cell battery, included

Use: Grilled and roast meat, frying oil, baking, candy and drinks

Package Includes

1x Instant Read Meat Thermometer

1x CR2450 Coin Cell Battery